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Wray & Nephew Welterweight contender boxing series …Eastman edges to championship honours; outpoints Kevin ‘Bus Boy’ Hylton
Howard ‘The Battersea Bomber’ Eastman, kept his hopes alive for the $2M (Jamaican dollars) first prize and the Wray & Nephew Welterweight contender 2014 title when he outpointed Kevin ‘Bus Boy’ Hylton at the Chinese Benevolent
Eastman scored a convincing points’ decision over Kevin ‘Bus Boy’ Hylton to edge towards the championship rounds.
Association Auditorium, Jamaica Wednesday evening last.
The Guyanese pugilist has already captured the hearts of the Jamaican pundits and is highly favoured to cart off the top honours. His strongest rival is Jamaican, Sakima Mullings, to whom he dropped a points decision when the two faced off in an earlier edition of Guyana Fight Night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall late last year.
Kaieteur Sport spoke with former Fecarbox champion, Joseph Murray, one of the coaches in the tournament and he said that Eastman is improving with every fight. Murray said that Mullings will square off against Richard Holmes next Wednesday evening and then the winner of the Christopher ‘Shaka’ Henry/Donovan Campbell on June 4.
He said that Eastman is scheduled to square off with Tsetsi Davis Davids in a semi final encounter. Davids had earlier defeated Guyanese Dereck Richmond in the said Contender Series.
An earlier report out of Jamaica and penned by Gleaner Writer Leroy Brown, had Eastman as one of the veterans in the Contender line-up and the most experienced boxer in the competition. So far Eastman has been impressive and defeated Derrick Spencer in his first fight in the Contender series where he forced the referee to stop the fight in the second round. Hylton had amassed six wins and three losses before losing to the ‘Battersea Bomber.’
Hylton, a good defensive boxer scored an impressive technical-knockout victory over Prince Lee Isidore from Trinidad. The runner up will earn J$500,000 while the boxers finishing in the third and fourth places receive J$250,000 and J$200,000 respectively.
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